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Education and participation have always been at the heart of Eyebeam programming. Building on the work of our Education Lab (active from 1997 to 2006) we continue to favor participation over skills based learning and integrate education into most of what we do.

Education covers areas as diverse as our cornerstone Youth Programs to Skillshare programs for the public as well as internally among our residents, fellows and staff, and results in the diversity of projects and programs outlined below.

Related Eyebeam programs are listed below.

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Is email a distraction? SelfControl is an OS X application which blocks access to incoming and/or outgoing mail servers and websites for a predetermined period of time. For example, you could block access to your email, facebook, and twitter for 90 minutes, but still have access to the rest of the web. Once started, it can not be undone by the application or by restarting the computer—you must wait for the timer to run out.

Developed at Eyebeam by Charlie Stigler with senior fellow Steve Lambert. Download the code here: http://github.com/slambert/selfcontrol/

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Tennessee clowns kicked kkk asses.

In Knoxville, Tennessee, a white supremacist group, VNN Vanguard Nazi/KKK, attempted to hold a hate rally. Then the clowns showed up….

“White Power!” the Nazi’s shouted, “White Flour?” the clowns yelled back running in circles throwing flour in the air and raising separate letters which spelt “White Flour”.

“White Power!” the Nazi’s angrily shouted once more, “White flowers?” the clowns cheers and threw white flowers in the air and danced about merrily.

“White Power!” the Nazi’s tried once again in a doomed and somewhat funny attempt to clarify their message, “ohhhhhh!” the clowns yelled “Tight Shower!” and held a solar shower in the air and all tried to crowd under to get clean as per the Klan’s directions.

At this point several of the Nazi’s and Klan members began clutching their hearts as if they were about to have a heart attack. Their beady eyes bulged, and the veins in their tiny narrow foreheads beat in rage. One last time they screamed “White Power!”

The clown women thought they finally understood what the Klan was trying to say. “Ohhhhh…” the women clowns said. “Now we understand…”, “WIFE POWER!” they lifted the letters up in the air, grabbed the nearest male clowns and lifted them in their arms and ran about merrily chanting “WIFE POWER! WIFE POWER! WIFE POWER!”

Hat tip to okimago.

(via needtherapy:gauntlet:noraleah)

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Location: FACT, Liverpool, UK
Cost: Free
http://climateforchange.fact.co.uk/

Continuing our collaboration with the Foundation for Art & Creative Technology (FACT) on their Climate for Change project, Eyebeam senior fellow Jeff Crouse and director of technology Emma Lloyd will be engaging hands-on workshops with Liverpool residents within FACT's Gallery 1. Climate for Change is an exhibition that promotes activism and community collaboration in the midst of environmental and financial crisis.

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October 26, 2010 - January 29, 2011.

Announcing, X-Lab, a platform for opening Eyebeam's process to the public. X-Lab shares the thinking and techniques behind the work-in-progress of our fellows and residents through workshops and presentations, while also looking critically at experimental lab models around the world. The artists, engineers, hackers, and program staff working at Eyebeam track the activities and projects within X-Lab as they evolve, fork, and converge via a dynamic documentation process - available online and in the space.

Follow X-Lab projects online as they develop: http://eyebeam.tumblr.com

The public is invited to interact with the artists' works during our X-Lab Open Hours: Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, 12PM – 6PM. Docents will lead visitors through the space and introduce artists during those times. Go here to view the schedule of artists' work-in-progress.

Additional workshops, lectures, and other public programs offered by Eyebeam residents and fellows will be posted to Eyebeam’s calendar. Sign-up for our newsletter to be the first to hear about our offerings.

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littleBits launch party and exhibition opening

littleBits is a growing library of preassembled circuit boards, made easy by tiny magnets

Opening: Thursday, April 30, 2009; 6PM – 9PM
Eyebeam: 540 W. 21st St. (btw 10th and 11th Aves.)

Schedule:
6PM: littleSneak: press preview
7PM: littleGeek: talk by Ayah Bdeir
7:30PM: bigLaunch: party

Exhibition was on view at Eyebeam April 30 - May 16, 2009

Crave creativity? Make something! Join us for the official product launch of littleBits at Eyebeam.

littleBits has a vision: to end the mysticism around engineering and electronics, to counter the black box product ideology of consumer electronics, and to fuel an explosion of creativity and innovation in artists, designers, kids and hobbyists. The release of littleBits Version 1 on April 30, 2009, unveiled a growing library of circuit boards preassembled by tiny magnets—the first of its kind. littleBits requires absolutely no programming, no prior knowledge and no hardware or software set-up. Just snap and play!

littleBits is an open source project developed under a Creative Commons license by Ayah Bdeir, in collaboration with Axel Esquite, Jie Qi, Luma Shihab-Eldin, and Young Jin Chung.
For more information visit: http://www.littlebits.cc

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Opening Reception: April 17, 6 – 8PM
Location: Eyebeam: 540 W. 21st, NYC
Cost: Free
http://eyebeam.org/events/permanent-state-of-emergency

State of Emergency was the inaugural exhibition of the Window Gallery, Eyebeam's new rotating gallery space programmed by Eyebeam fellows and residents and viewable on West 21st Street. A deliberately provocative projection series organized and co-curated by Sherry Millner and Ernest Larsen, State of Emergency included work by Eyebeam senior fellow Michael Mandiberg, Mary Kelly, Allan Sekula, Walid Raad, Leslie Thornton, Gregory Sholette, Louis Hock, Marty Lucas, Sally Stein, Martha Rosler, Ligorano/Reese, Yvonne Rainer, James T. Hong, and Yin-Ju Chen, as well as Millner and Larsen themselves.

State of Emergency began several years ago as a silent shout-out against the ever-deepening devastation of democracy, a group response to the manufactured “state of emergency” in which we live. This updated version reinterpreted that theme to include caustic responses to the ever-deepening economic collapse.

This inaugural exhibition in the Window Gallery was an initiative of senior fellow Michael Mandiberg, and was on display April 17 - 28, 2009.

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EYEBEAM BENEFIT VER3.0

JUNE 16, 2009
8PM – Midnight
EYEBEAM, 540 W. 21ST ST., NYC

PARTICIPATION REQUIRED: On June 16, 8 – 12AM join the creative process with glam cocktails, tasty food, deadly “big-yard” music, and a preview of the latest in art and technology. The Eyebeam Benefit is your chance to meet our all-star cast of contemporary artists and creative technologists, hob-knob with other like-minded creatives in our unique warehouse venue, and contribute to one of the most innovative art centers in North America, and arguably the most original in the world. All proceeds benefit Eyebeam educational programming, residencies and fellowships.

ADVANCE TICKETS SOLD OUT

MIXER after-party tickets available at the door for $20

FEATURING

Environment design: fluxxlab with Brian Osborn
Video wizardry: Benton-C Bainbridge
Audio mixologist: DJ N-Ron
Fever Karaoke: Fever Creative
The World Series of ‘Tubing: Aaron Meyers & Jeff Crouse
You and your iPod … on stage: Re-ware
Hack Your Face: LoVid
TV Hijack: OMG I’m On (dot) TV
Causal Encounters: Intake Manifold
Sansystem: Art Jones
The Eyebeam Windowfarm: Rebecca Bray & Britta Riley
FIVE: Rashaad Newsome
Media Sponsor: Fame Game

BENEFIT COMMITTEE

Serge Becker | Mark & Gretchen Biedron | Michael Berlin | Emma Canarick | Amanda McDonald Crowley | Frayda & Ronald Feldman | Saul Griffith | David Howe | Natalie Jeremijenko | John S. Johnson & Susan Short | Seward & Joyce Johnson | Matt Kliegman | Lawrence Lessig | Jill Magid | Jennifer & Kevin McCoy | Paul D. Miller AKA DJ Spooky | Craig Newmark | Carlos Quirarte | Michael & Carolyn Rossip Malcolm | Marie Sester | Marc & Sara Schiller | Carolee Schneemann | Kyle Shannon | Tracy White & Lakshman Achuthan | Krzysztof Wodiczko | Marina Zurkow

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We are creating several different designs for suspended, hydroponic, modular, low-energy, high-yield light-augmented window farms using low-impact or recycled local materials. These prototype window farms, to be located in high-profile windows throughout the city, are intended to inspire other New Yorkers to design and implement their own window farms. Signs in the windowfarms will challenge New Yorker to create their own and direct them to a website where we can all share photos, plans, designs, and information. Together, we will derive viable methods for growing food under the local conditions of our own homes in a way that is efficient enough for New Yorkers' lives.

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Building on the work of the Open Lab and its predecessor the R&D Lab, the Open Culture Research Group explores the history of craft traditions, free software, open source, creative commons, and other models of shared, open culture.  

Part of an Open Culture, is the culture of sharing, so we have organized a series of skillshares about a range of issues: From how to share your wifi safely, to how to best advocate for open licensing among artists and visual makers.  There is also a distinct interest in understanding the possible interaction between open licenses and forms of distribution, be that an art gallery, a furniture manufacturer, or a type foundry.

One of our current research threads focuses on design methodologies toward social change and critical intervention. Follow the Open Culture research blog as it develops.

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